Audita Quotes

#1. One eye-witness is of more weight than ten hearsays. Those who hear, speak of shat they have heard; whose who see, know beyond mistake.
[Lat., Pluris est oculatus testis unus, quam auriti decem.
Qui audiunt, audita dicunt; qui vident, plane sciunt.]

Plautus

#2. No form of art repeats or imitates successfully all that can be said by another; the writer conveys his experience of life along a channel of communication closed to painter, mathematician, musician, film-maker.

Storm Jameson

#3. I've made mistakes, been broken by evil, and wished fervently for my life to be taken from me. The past will never change. But my imperfect past brought me here, and it's a remarkable place to be. All I've suffered, all you have suffered, Kathryn, has not made us weak. It has made us wise.

Kirsten Beyer

#4. I have tried to explore the little talent I have for writing.

Cyril Cusack

#5. In the year 2525, that song will be even less popular than when it first came out.

Garry Shandling

#6. People need to be fed, medicated, educated, clothed, and sheltered, and if we're compassionate we'll help them, but you get no moral credit for forcing other people to do what you think is right. There is great joy in helping people, but no joy in doing it at gunpoint.

Penn Jillette

#7. No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair.

Margaret Turnbull

#8. I hate being the only mortal in a gathering full of Immortals who think killing each other cleverly is the height of good manners.

Michelle Sagara West

#9. She smirks."Are you attempting to stop me, little one?"
"Excuse me? Did you just call me 'little one'? What are you? Like, four feet tall?" I ask.

Carrie Jones

#10. But because she was not a girl now, she was not awed, but only wondered at how men ordered their world into this dance of masks, and how easily a woman might learn to dance it.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#11. It wasn't just a kiss. It was a lesson - a fierce, burning imprint, so that my lips would always know the difference between being wanted and being craved.

Leylah Attar

#12. I think Behind the Music is good for people like Leif Garrett and Motley Crue.

Ronnie Spector

#13. Soon we will plunge ourselves into cold shadows, and all of summer's stunning afternoons will be gone. I already hear the dead thuds of logs below falling on the cobblestones and the lawn.

Charles Baudelaire

#14. Then I remember that God is really, really old. So maybe God has God arthritis. And maybe that's why the world sucks. Maybe God's hands and fingers don't work as well as they used to.

Sherman Alexie

#15. Hold back nothing of yourselves for yourselves so that He who gives Himself totally to you may receive you totally.

Francis Of Assisi

#16. He isn't a horse, Elayne. You don't own him.

Robert Jordan